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Credo Reference recently added the following new titles:

• A-Z of Social Research, from Sage UK
• Cambridge Handbook of Age and Ageing, from Cambridge University Press
• Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World: Locations
• Dictionary of Race, Ethnicity & Culture, from Sage UK
• Dictionary of Sociolinguistics, from Edinburgh University Press
• Feminist Philosophies A-Z, from Edinburgh University Press
• Guide to Economic Indicators, from M.E. Sharpe
• Key Concepts in Medical Sociology, from Sage UK
• Key Concepts in Urban Studies, from Sage UK
• Key Concepts in Work, from Sage UK
• Sage Dictionary of Cultural Studies, from Sage UK
• Social Science Jargon-Buster, from Sage UK

PubMed, comprises more than 19 million citations for biomedical articles from MEDLINE and life science journals. Citations may include links to full-text articles from PubMed Central or publisher web sites.

When you search for articles in PubMed, your terms are now automatically “ANDing.” For example: children exercise is searched as children AND exercise.

Exact phrases require quotes around them. For example: “exercise induced asthma”.

We now have World Folklore and Folklife – a database of folk traditions from around the world that includes:

• Celebrations and Rituals
• Food and Drink
• Holidays and Festivals
• Music and Dance
• Religion and Belief
• Tales, Myths, and Urban Legends
• Traditional Arts and Crafts

It’s linked on the Databases A-Z list.

Through Discus, we have three new career or career-related databases:

Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center
Learning Express Library
Vocations, Careers, and Technical Education Collection.

You can find all three databases on the Databases A-Z list:

To gather all our career resources together, there’s now a “Career Information” page which is linked on the Research by Subject page.

On the Where Can I Find page, you can find a link for “Graduate School Admission Exams” and linked it back to the section on the Career Information page that has the Learning Express Library, because this database allows you to take practice GMAT, GRE, LSAT, and MCAT exams.

They made the Scriptures Index in the ATLA Religion Database MUCH easier to use! Remember what a hassle it used to be to drill down to one specific Bible passage? (OK, you probably haven’t given it that much thought, but it really was a pain.)

Now you can just:

• Click on the Scriptures link in the blue bar above the search boxes.
• Click on the “Expand” link by the name of the book.
• Click on the “Expand” link by the chapter.
• Click on the verse you want. This will bring up all references that discuss this verse. (You can limit results by date, source type, etc. using the left and right columns.)

I just know you’ll all want to try this right away. Remember only one person at a time can use this database, so don’t everyone try all at once.

This is SO exciting!

New content has been added to our Mergent Online subscription. This replaces much of the print materials that we have received in years past.

Here’s a list of the new online content:

• Annual Reports
• Equity Pricing (historical stock prices back 30 years)
• Fact Sheets/Equity Reports
• Long Term Debt (in depth bond information)
• Industry Reports (all 4 regions, North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, and Europe)
• Insider Trading
• Institutional Holdings
• International Company Data

The library subscription to Mergent Online permits 20 simultaneous users.

If you have questions about Mergent Online or other business databases please contact Meredith Futral (mfutral@clemson.edu) or Bobby Hollandsworth (hollan4@clemson.edu)

We now have the Roper Public Opinion Archives, which includes access to iPOLL, a database of U.S. survey information from 1935-present and RoperExpress, a data access tool for on-demand download of data

It’s linked on the Databases A-Z page.

We have a new database, Literature Online – a library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 243 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources

You can see it on the Databases A-Z page and the Literature & Film: Full-Text Collections page.

We have many, many, many research databases that you can use to find information about your topic. You can browse the list of databases alphabetically or look at our list of subjects here.

Good luck!

We now have access to ProQuest Newspapers – full-text articles from:

The Christian Science Monitor, 1988-present
The Los Angeles Times, 1985-present
The New York Times (late edition), 1980-present
The New York Times Book Review, 1986-present (full text, 1997-present)
The New York Times Magazine, 1986-present (full text, 1997-present)
The Wall Street Journal (eastern edition), 1984-present
The Washington Post, 1987-present

The database and the individual newspapers are linked on the Databases A-Z page and also on the Newspapers page.